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Louise McGillis

Associate University Librarian, Grenfell

[email protected]

Crystal Rose

Public Services Librarian

[email protected]

The “Adjacent Possible”

Building Internal & External Networks

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Where do ideas come from?

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Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson

https://youtu.be/NugRZGDbPFU

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Innovation…

…does not happen

in isolation

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The “adjacent possible”

“Innovative environments are better at helping their inhabitants explore the adjacent possible”

(Johnson)

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Social Capital

The collective value of all

social

networks

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Vertical Networks

Traditional way

organizations work

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Horizontal Networks

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Why is social capital important?

Communities with high community and civic engagement are better educated, healthier, vote more, are more altruistic, and more

prosperous than those with weaker social

networks (Robert Putman)

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Social Capital

“The most important

productive tool for generating good ideas remains a circle of

humans at a table, talking

shop” (Johnson)

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“Third places”

First place (home)

Second place (work)

Third places

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Libraries as “third-places”

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More than just comfy chairs!

Ferriss Hodgett Library, Grenfell Campus

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Role of Librarians

• Engage and collaborate with other

departments within your organization

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Darwin’s Birthday Party

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Cupcakes for Chemists!

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Role of Librarians

• Engage and collaborate with other

departments within your organization

Identify research projects & partners

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Grenfell Library & Rural Secretariat

Partnerships

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Networks for Business Innovation

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Role of Librarians

• Engage and collaborate with other

departments within your organization

• Identify research projects & partners

Include community engagement as part of

library’s vision

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Grenfell Library’s Vision Statement

“Our Library is committed to community outreach. We provide research support to

local and regional community groups, identify research support opportunities, and increase community awareness and use of MUN

Library collections and research support

services.”

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CU Expo 2013

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Failure?

“If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing

anything very innovative”

– Woody Allen

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Chance Favours the Connected Mind

“social capital”

Libraries as

‘third places”

“adjacent possible”

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Resources

CU Expo 2013. www.cuexpo2011.ca

Frey, Susan M., and Margit Codispoti. “Bowling Alone in the Library: Building Social Capital on Campus.” Popular Culture

& American Culture Association Annual National

Conference. St. Louis Grand, St. Louis, MI. April 2003.

Hardagon, Andrew. How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate.

Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2003.

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Resources

Johnson, Steven. TED Talk: Where Good Ideas Come From.

July 2010.

Johnson, Steven. Where Good Ideas Come From: The

Natural History of Innovation. New York: Penguin, 2010.

Johnson, Steven. Where Good Ideas Come From (Youtube

video). 17 Sept. 2010

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Resources

Oldenburg, Ray. The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and other Hangouts at

the Heart of a Community. 3

rd

ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 1999.

Putman, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Rayner-Canham, Geoff. “Celebrating IYC with Cupcakes.”

Chem 13 News Oct. 2011.

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